Discover how to manually assign callouts to drafting views in Revit, whether you've imported CAD details or drawn from scratch. Learn how to create callout symbols, assign them to the appropriate drafting view, create a section detail callout, and add a section callout using the detail type.
Key Insights
- The process of manually assigning callouts to drafting views in Revit requires creating callout symbols and assigning them to the correct drafting view. This is done by checking the 'reference other view' box in the options bar before drawing the callout or section.
- Creating a section detail callout involves creating a detail sheet and placing the detail on that sheet. In the VDCI example, the sheet is a D 34 by 22 VDCI CAD teacher colon E1 30 by 42 horizontal.
- To make a section callout using the detail type, go to the view tab in the ribbon, select the section, and change its type from wall section to detail. Most importantly, the 'reference other view' box must be checked before drawing the detail callout.
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In this video we're going to look at manually assigning callouts to drafting views. If you've imported CAD details or have drawn details from scratch in Revit using only detail components and lines, meaning there's no reference to the building model, you can create callout symbols and manually assign them to the appropriate drafting view. To do so is simple, just check the reference other view box in the options bar before drawing the callout or section.
Let's create a section detail callout in the reflected ceiling plan. First we will create a detail sheet and place our detail in that sheet. Go to the view tab in the ribbon and under the sheet composition panel select sheet and select D 34 × 22 VDCI CAD teacher colon E1 30 × 42 horizontal.
Click ok and let's go ahead and renumber and name it. You'll notice it simply took the next sequence in the series of sheets that were in our project so far so it by default numbered it A 6.3. So let's go ahead and right click it, click rename, and we'll number this one A 7.1 and let's call it details all in caps and click ok. Let's go ahead and select our title block here in this view and one of the parameters for this family is keynotes under the graphics heading.
Let's uncheck that and what you'll notice is it removed that line which would identify where to place keynotes in other sheets in this project such as plans or sections. Now let's drag a view onto our sheet and we're going to take the ceiling soffit detail view that we just imported so it's going to be under drafting views, ceiling soffit detail, just drag and drop it into our sheet and let's place it at the upper right hand corner of our sheet. Now we want to detail on our reflected ceiling plan so let's go to our project browser and find reflected ceiling plans.
Let me just close all of these. So it's going to be under ceiling plans. Let's expand that and we are going to add it to level one.
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Double click that and it takes us to our ceiling plan view and what we're going to do is add a section callout and use the detail type. So let's go to our view tab again in the ribbon, select section and be sure to change its type from wall section to detail and this is the most important step of this video is checking reference other view. Be sure that's checked before you draw your detail callout and what this will do it will allow you to select views from this drop down menu and you can pick another view to reference and what we're going to do is select ceiling soffit detail the one that we just placed on sheet A7.1 and you'll notice the reference to the right of the view name.
Select that and now with that assigned let's go ahead and draw a callout at the transition between a gyp board ceiling and acoustical ceiling tile and we get this warning which is pretty common when you work on a Revit project saying none of the created elements are visible in reflected ceiling plan level one view so it's saying you should probably check your active view its parameters visibility settings as well as plan regions. Our sections aren't shown in this view so let's go to our visibility settings so type in VV as the shortcut. If we go to our annotation categories tab let's scroll down and find sections and notice the box is unchecked meaning all of the section tags have been hidden in this view.
Click ok and you will see that our sections appear. Let's hide some of these section tags and leave on some other ones so if we select one of our building section tags let's just right click it select hide in view and rather than selecting category select element so that one element hides and the rest of the elements in that category remain visible. Let's do the same for this one hide in view elements and then our building sections have been hidden.
You can go ahead and leave that wall section tag on as it's not really conflicting with anything. Let's adjust this so that our tail is on one end and the head is on the acoustical ceiling tile end and you'll notice this sim text at the top right and where that comes from is the type properties of our drafting view detail call out here so if we select that and we select edit type under properties you'll notice there is a parameter called reference label and the value right now is sim. If we delete that text click ok that sim text is deleted as well.
What we sometimes do in our details is we'll create one that's for typical similar and then a blank one so you can create different types duplicate them you can make one called sim that will have a reference label called sim or you can make one for typical typ, change the reference label to typ click ok so that whenever you drop in your callout tags you have a few options to choose from whether it be similar or maybe your default is just blank. In the next video we're going to take a look at creating detail components from a manufacturer's detail.